Adele Shakal ([info]shakal) wrote,
@ 2007-08-22 13:56:00
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Current mood: busy
Entry tags:project management, webmastering

Professional resources for webmasters
(I've been doing system administration, technical documentation and project management more than webmastering for the past few years, so some of these organizations may have shifted in the meanwhile.)

Webgrrls International: http://www.webgrrls.com/ (see comments for why this is struck-through)

The HTML Authors Guild: http://www.hwg.org/ (I think I let my membership lapse, it's been a while,; but they do have decent online training opportunities.)

International Webmasters Association: http://www.iwanet.org/

Webmaster Organization: http://webmaster.org/

World Organization of Webmasters: http://joinwow.org/


Webmonkey, the web developer's resource: http://www.webmonkey.com/

Jakob Nielsen's Website: http://www.useit.com/

Lynda.com's online training library: http://www.lynda.com/products/

CSS Zen Garden: http://www.csszengarden.com/


I've been hauling around various editions of these books for years, referencing them as needed:
Webmaster in a Nutshell by Stephen Spainhour and Robert Eckstein
Web Design in a Nutshell by Jennifer Niederst
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few
The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web by Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag

plus various CSS books by Eric Meyer:
CSS: The Definitive Guide
Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design
More Eric Meyer on CSS

plus I've picked up whatever O'Reilly, Peachpit, and No Starch Press books were appropriate to my immediate job and/or sanity needs.


Do you know of more good ones? Please enlighten me!


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[info]clynne
2007-08-22 10:10 pm UTC (link)
Run far far away from Webgrrls.

It started as a grass-roots type of thing with women on the web, but then the boyfriend of the chick running the thing turned out to have been sort-of running it for her and he decided to try to monetize it and reign it in. It's largely just a marketing organ for this guy.

Even when it *was* a grass-roots "women in webstuff" positions, it was largely made up of women with little-to-no engineering skill (many, despite being nominally "artists," couldn't even use Dreamweaver or other computer-based web layout programs.)

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[info]shakal
2007-08-22 10:19 pm UTC (link)
Yikes! I was a member for a little while, years and years ago, when most of the webmasters I knew were making the transition from mostly working in vi and bbedit to using the first versions of Dreamweaver. It was useful back then...

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[info]shakal
2007-08-22 10:30 pm UTC (link)
I should perhaps clarify... I never attended any of the in-person events, I mostly-lurked on one of the California or LA webgrrl mailing lists, and that was useful.

*gives calendar a stern glance* Dang, that's been a long time ago. Time flies when you're having fun, right?

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[info]jcortese
2007-08-23 12:41 am UTC (link)
That's basically what I remember frmo my time in it -- a lot of the women in it seemed to regard it the way women used to regard macrame classes. I remember attempting to teach a VERY basic beginner class in CGI, and all of a sudden, no one bothered to show up. The second it became more than just sitting in a coffee shop sipping mochas and shooting very tentative shit, everyone dropped out.

It could have been a lot more than it was, but no one seemed to want to move in any given direction. It was the least motivated group of people I've ever gotten involved with -- and I don't think it started out like that.

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[info]shakal
2007-08-23 01:34 am UTC (link)
Yikes again. Maybe I was on the mailing list for the only brief very early period where it was actually useful. :-P

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